Electric Power Systems

Exam #4: 26/09/2016

1 Part
Exercise 1
A three-phase, eight-pole, 50 Hz induction motor is supplied by a line-to-line voltage of 400 V. The windings
of the induction motor are Y-connected and the transformer ratio between the stator and the rotor is = 1.2.
In normal operating conditions the motor develops at its shaft a mechanical torque of = 300 /, while
the rotor angular speed is 720 rot/min and the current in the rotor windings is = 43 .
In no-load operating conditions the motor absorbs an apparent power = 5600 with a power factor of
cos = 0.185.
Neglecting the voltage drop in the stator windings, for the normal operating conditions, compute:
1. the mechanical power at the shaft of the motor;
2. the Joule losses in the rotor;
3. the phase resistance and reactance of the rotor windings;
4. the phasor of the current absorbed by the rotor from the supply network;
5. the efficiency of the motor;
The reactive power required by the induction machine is provided by a synchronous generator (SG) while the
real power is provided by the external grid (Ext Grid, see the Figure below). The synchronous machine is
characterized by synchronous reactance of 2.1 and its stator phases are D-connected.

6. compute the emf induced in the stator windings of the synchronous generator;
7. the current
supplied by the external grid to the plant.

Exercise 2
Consider the following electric network

Line
L1
L2
L3

L
xl
Vn
[km] [/km] [kV]
15
0.3
150
25
0.3
150
20
0.3
150

Generator
G

An
[MVA]
250

Demand
D1
D2

Vn
[kV]
150

Real power output: PG

[MW]
170

Operating voltage: VG
[kV]
148.5

Vn Absorbed real power: PD Power factor

[kV]
[MW]
150
200
0.90 - leading
150
20
0.92 - lagging
Inductive Bank

Vn
bR
[kV] [mS]
150
20

Knowing that the External Grid (Ext Grid) is modeled as an infinite power generator that imposes at its
terminals a voltage of 154.5 kV:
1. determine the bus admittance matrix;
2. identify the bus types for Power Flow (PF) computation;
3. choose the starting profile for the iterative process of PF;
4. perform one PF iteration using the Newton-Raphson method (compute the bus voltage phasors);
5. using the results of the previous point, compute the reactive power losses in the network; exclude the
inductive bank from the computations of the reactive power losses.

2 Part
Answer only one of the two following questions
1. Describe the elementary machine and derive the equivalent circuit. Prove the mechanical
characteristic.
2. Show the different approaches available to obtain the rotating magnetic field. Prove the Galileo
Ferraris Theorem.

Answer only one of the two following questions

1. Describe the characteristic of the Jacobian matrix for transmission and distribution networks and
comment its impact on the network operation. Then, derive the DC power method for power flow
problem.
2. The admittance matrix: derive and describe the methods available to compute it.